Research Guides: MUS 104 World Music: Articles

Jstor

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
A good full text database for world music research in that it includes the titles like the journals Ethnomusicology and World of Music.

Primo

Primo is a good place for interdisciplinary music research because it includes journals from all fields.

RILM

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature 1967-Present This link opens in a new window
Subject: Music, Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Provides abstracts to journal articles, books, conference proceedings, and other coverage of Western and Eastern classical, pop, folk, and jazz music scholarship.

Primo does not give you exhaustive coverage of everything the library has, or everything that has been published on your topic. For deeper coverage, use RILM, our primary research database for musicology.

Tips

Again, keep searches simple, 2-4 keywords. However, you can sometimes search more narrowly, because journal articles tend to be more focused.
Use the results, including the included Subject words to brainstorm additional ways to search.
Important! RILM is what's called an indexing database, which means it only includes citations for most things. Use the links to check to see if we own any of the materials in our collection
If we don't own an item, we can order it through MeLCat or InterLibrary Loan, so take advantage of this! Just make sure to allow yourself enough time to get things (1-2 weeks)